Aubrey Lanier
{{Short description|American football player (1888–1936)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox college football player
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|birth_place=Butler, Arkansas
|birth_date={{Birth date|1888|2|18}}
|death_place=Shreveport, Louisiana
|death_date= {{Death date and age|mf=y|1936|4|25|1888|2|18}}
|currentposition=Halfback
|height_ft=5
|height_in=10
|weight_lb=170
|school=Sewanee Tigers
|class=1911
|pastschools=Sewanee (1907–1910)
|highlights=
- SIAA championship (1909)
- All-Southern (1907, 1909, 1910)
- Sewanee All-Time Football Team
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Aubrey Falls "Laney" Lanier (February 18, 1888 – April 25, 1936) was a college football player.
Early years
Aubrey was born on February 18, 1888, in the city of Butler in Lonoke County, Arkansas, to Isaac Hill Lanier and Mary "Ellen" Cooper.
Sewanee
He was a halfback for the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee: The University of the South from 1907 to 1910, thrice selected All-Southern.e. g. {{Cite news|url = http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=Y4ET4ESEMTQxMDI3Njg5OC40Mjc3NTE6MToxMzoxMzIuMTk4LjUwLjEz&p_action=doc&s_lastnonissuequeryname=30&d_viewref=search&p_queryname=30&p_docnum=8&p_docref=v2:1223BCE5B718A166@EANX-122ACF8107A1BC40@2419014-1228336458E2E538@11-13204451DD2BE891@All%20S.%20I.%20A.%20A.%20Team.%20Consensus%20of%20Opinion%20Gives%20Places%20to%20Players.%20Vanderbilt%2C%20Sewanee|title = All S. I. A. A. Team.|date = December 8, 1910|work = Times-Picayune}} Vanderbilt head coach Dan McGugin rated him as one of the greatest he ever saw.{{cite journal|url=https://archive.org/stream/sewaneealumninew02univ#page/24/mode/2up/search/aubrey|title=A Star Passes On|journal=Sewanee Alumni News|date=1936|volume=2|number=4|page=4}} Grantland Rice rated him amongst the best ever at punt returns. He would catch punts whilst running at full speed. An all-time Sewanee team noted "Critics declare Aubrey Lanier the equal of Walter Eckersall as a safety man."{{cite web|url=http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16313coll13/id/213|title=All-Time All Star Team|access-date=2015-07-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150802052703/http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16313coll13/id/213|archive-date=2015-08-02|url-status=dead}} In 1915, John Heisman selected the 30 greatest Southern football players, and mentioned Lanier 21st.{{cite news|url=https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn89053729/1915-02-26/ed-6/seq-9/print/image_681x801_from_0,0_to_5424,6385/|date=February 26, 1915|page=9|work=Atlanta Georgian |title=Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, February 26, 1915, Night Edition, Image 9 « Georgia Historic Newspapers }}
=1907=
McGugin said of Lanier in 1907 that he was "a star of purest ray, and came near winning the Vanderbilt game by his brilliant dashes after receiving punts."{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vws7AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA73|pages=71–75|title=Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association Foot Ball|author=Dan McGugin|author-link=Dan McGugin|journal=The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide|publisher=National Collegiate Athletic Association|date=1907}}
=1909=
In 1909 when Sewanee won an SIAA championship Rice called him "the noblest Tiger of them all."{{cite journal|url=https://archive.org/stream/sewaneealumninew15univ#page/n3/mode/2up/search/lanier|journal=Sewanee Alumni News|date=1949|page=5|title=Sports at Sewanee|author=James Gregg}} The Kappa Alpha Journal gives similar praise that year, calling Lanier "The greatest performer of the college game on the Southern field.{{cite journal|journal=Kappa Alpha Journal|volume=27|issue=2|title=Alpha-Alpha, University of the South|page=200|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pJhOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA200|last1=Order|first1=Kappa Alpha|year=1909}}
===1910===
Lanier was captain of the 1910 Sewanee team.{{cite journal|page=31|url=http://issuu.com/sewaneeathletics/docs/sewaneefootball2011|title=National and Southern Honors|journal=Sewanee Football Media Guide|year=2011}}
References
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Category:American football halfbacks
Category:Sewanee Tigers football players
Category:All-Southern college football players